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		<title>Our first (real) day in Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We—and when I say we, I mean our France-2011 Imagewest Team—have had a wonderful first day in the city of Paris. We strolled the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, visited the Eiffel Tower, ate croque-monsieur at little cafe a few blocks away, visited the Global Editors Network offices near the St. Paul Metro Station, and ate again at one of the many music venues scattered all around the city on this very special evening in Paris. I&#8217;ll be writing daily about our trip to La Ville-Lumière over the next few weeks. In ...]]></description>
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		<title>A weekend in Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent the weekend exploring Barcelona, both by tour bus and on foot. I&#8217;ll post more about our adventures over the next few days. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a Catalan recipe—it&#8217;s very representative of Catalan cuisine.
Snails &#38; Rabbit in Romesco Sauce &#124; 4 servings:
8 rabbit pieces + the liver / 2 lbs of snails (weight includes shells) / 2 medium onions / 4 garlic cloves / 4 tablespoons of Romesco sauce (see recipe below) / 1 small red chili pepper / flour, salt, black ground pepper / 2 cups of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/headline/a-weekend-in-barcelona</link>
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		<title>Our first big adventure!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those readers who don&#8217;t already know, Imagewest is living and working in Spain. We’re settled into our temporary home (thanks Mariela), we’ve had a good Spanish meal, bought groceries in the supermercado and discovered just enough about local transportation to be dangerous.
Things we’ve learned so far…
The Catalan language is not “almost like” Spanish.
The Sant Andreu Arenal railway station cannot be reached from the San Andreu
Metro station (get off at Fabra i Puig instead to catch a train to La Garriga).
Food is either really expensive or really cheap.
Pasta is “fantastico” ...]]></description>
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		<title>Barcelona by train, plane and automobile (not necessarily in that order)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We made it! Our little band of swashbucklers left Nashville Monday afternoon and landed in Barcelona on Tuesday morning—local time. Imagewest has traveled across Barcelona from the airport to the metro to the train station (and changed trains several times, dragging all our gear). Finally found the right train to our town in the mountains (La Garriga) and walked to our apartment (2 blocks from the train station).
Weather here is usually beautiful and warm, but we&#8217;ve had rain most of today. The locals seem to take it all in stride. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/headline/barcelona-by-train-plane-and-automobile-not-necessarily-in-that-order</link>
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		<title>Toledo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heather and I visited Toledo on Saturday—a real adventure. I made over 350 photographs and a few of them are pretty good. Toledo is famous for it&#8217;s geography, it&#8217;s history, and one of it&#8217;s most famous citizens, El Greco.
We traveled first by autobus into Madrid, took the Metro to the train station, and then bought very affordable tickets on the AVE to Toledo. Public transportation here is great (although bus schedules may be a little tricky to decipher) and a savvy tourist can go just about anywhere with a little ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/headline/toledo</link>
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		<title>Jobs for designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem a little out of sync, since I&#8217;m still in España, but one of our team members—Zac Stout—just discovered an online job listing for graphic designers that might be worth a look (if you&#8217;re looking). The site also hosts designer portfolios and setting up an account is free and relatively easy. Visit the site called Coroflot. Click on the design jobs tab at the top for a current listing. While you&#8217;re on site exploring, take a look at the design salary survey and a designer&#8217;s forum called Creative ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/featured/jobs-for-designers</link>
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		<title>Empanada Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We see these on the menu often—every little restaurant and pub serves them as an appetizer (we love tapas).
Ingredients:
2 hard-boiled large eggs
1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
3/4 pound ground beef chuck
2 tablespoons raisins
1 1/2 tablespoons chopped pimiento-stuffed olives
1 (14-ounce) can whole tomatoes in juice, drained and chopped. Reserve 2 tablespoons juice
1 package frozen empanada pastry disks, thawed
About 4 cups vegetable oil
How to Prepare:
Cut each egg crosswise into 10 thin slices. Cook onion in in a heavy medium skillet ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/design_art/empanada-recipe</link>
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		<title>At home in Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a little town called Villanueva del Pardillo (those 2 Ls sound like a Y in Spanish). Pardillo is a small and relatively new suburb of multi-story apartments and shops wrapped around a much older town and plaza complete with fountain.
The picture of the modern-looking structure is our apartment building. It&#8217;s part of a cluster of 4 identical buildings around a central court. There&#8217;s a pool in the middle, a green-space and a playground for a daycare center. Our building is the only one with short-term rental space ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/featured/home-in-spain</link>
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		<title>An evening in VdlC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent a beautiful evening in Villanueva de la Cañada. VdlC—our client city—is a well-healed hamlet on the edge of Madrid and actually part of the municipality of Madrid (as are over 100 other small towns surrounding Madrid proper). Cañada was nearly destroyed in the Battle of Brunete during the Spanish Civil War, so almost all of the town was built in the last 50+ years. City Hall is housed in a very traditional complex of buildings including a church and the old police station. The whitewashed-and-tile-roofed structures flank the city ...]]></description>
		<link>http://adchaos.com/design_art/another-evening-in-vdlc</link>
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		<title>Sangria Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had the good fortune to stumble across a little cantina in the old part of Barcelona. Decided to have dinner and people-watch. Sangria was phenomenal. Here&#8217;s a recipe:
Ingredients:
3 ounces triple sec
4 ounces brandy
2 cups orange juice
1/2  apple, peeled, cored and sliced
1/2  orange, slices from
1  liter cheap, dry red wine
3 cups ice


Pour ingredients into a standard-size pitcher. Add ice to chill, stir and serve. Serves 8.
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		<link>http://adchaos.com/design_art/sangria-recipe</link>
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